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" The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul... "
Poetics; Or a Series of Poems and Disquisitions on Poetry ... - Page 95
by George Dyer - 1812
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The two books of Francis Bacon: of the proficience and advancement of ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 236 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. 2. The use of this feigned history^ hath been to give...reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found...
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The North British Review, Volume 19

1853 - 604 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, 'which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in the points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. he man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found...
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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Translations of the passages in ...

Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 394 pages
...shows], now bright with gold, Then dusk with horrid shades. — Virgil (Kennedy). P. 65, n. 1, 1. 1. — The use of this feigned history hath been to give...reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind

Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 514 pages
..." is nothing else but feigned history, which may he styled [written] as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been, to give...reason whereof, there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind

Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 530 pages
...be styled [written] as well in prose as in Terse. The use of this feigned history hath been, to giro some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, tho world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof, there is agreeable to the spirit...
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Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets

David Masson - 1856 - 528 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in the points wherein the nature of things doth deny it — the world being in proportion inferior to...
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Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets

David Masson - 1856 - 494 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be styled ae well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in the points wherein the nature of things doth deny it — the world being in proportion inferior to...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but Feigned History, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this Feigned History hath been to give...reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in...
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Lectures on the British Poets, Volume 1

Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...fortified and exalted ; and his brief but celebrated passage on Poetry may be aptly repeated : — "The use of this feigned history hath been to give...reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found...
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